Innovation

The shift in how we live and work has forced many organizations to accelerate their digital transformation efforts from years to months. To ensure that an enterprise survives and thrives, digital innovation should be top of mind for any business leader. Once considered niche, APIs have become the core building blocks behind many successful digital businesses — with proven benefits such as speeding go-to-market times, improving developer productivity and velocity, and, most importantly, unlocking innovation. During this session, you will discover what it means to “innovate or die”, the connection between digital innovation and APIs, and how to use APIs and integrations to drive ecosystems. You will also learn how integrations bridge different systems and enable new API-driven business models.

Over the past decade, the banking sector’s technology landscape has been drastically altered by the emergence of digital-native challengers. These include fintech firms like Afterpay, bigtech financial services offerings like Apple Pay, and neobanks like WeBank. Banking incumbents have responded with strategies including exploring collaboration with the broader financial services ecosystem via more value-focused external APIs, providing liveness in their end-consumer channels by having event-driven architectures, and building more agile productization capabilities to directly offer better consumer experiences ahead of the competition. In this talk, Christopher will explore how several banks, from across the spectrum of digital maturity, have used WSO2’s technology to stay relevant and thrive. In doing so, he will utilize success stories to walk you through key underlying design principles, systems architecture, and the implementation process.